The German Geothermal Congress 2025
18 - 20 November 2025 | Frankfurt, Germany
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 17/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Excursion 1: Day trip: Seasonal crystalline geothermal probe storage facility at TU Darmstadt & GeoLaB rock laboratory in the Odenwald Chair: Ingo Sass, GFZ German Center for Geosciences (Potsdam, Germany) Start & Ending: House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) Costs: 50 € Participants: max. 30 |
| Date: Wednesday, 19/Nov/2025 | |||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration and Welcome Coffee Location: Foyer |
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| 8:00am - 6:00pm |
Poster-Exhibition Location: Future Aviation Lab > Ground Floor & XL6 + Henry Ford > 6th Floor |
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| 9:00am - 10:40am |
Opening Session Location: HOLM_maX 1&2 Chair: Gregor Dilger, Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. |
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| 10:40am - 11:10am |
Coffee Break Location: Foyer |
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| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Forum Hessen Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Lisa Körner, Hessisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie, Verkehr, Wohnen und ländlichen Raum |
Postersession | Short Presentations Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Horst Rüter, HarbourDom GmbH |
Spotlight on the Partner Country: UK-Forum 1 (engl.) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Matthew Killeya, National Geothermal Centre |
Forum 01: Oberflächennahe Geothermie - Quartierslösungen und Wärmenetze Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Claus H. Heske, Sachverständigenbüro für Geothermie |
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| 12:50pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Foyer |
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| 2:00pm - 3:40pm |
Forum 02: Das Forschungsvorhaben GeoLaB Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Harald Milsch, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung |
Forum 03: Exploration und geologische Daten Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Ingo Schäfer, Geologischer Dienst NRW |
Spotlight on the Partner Country: UK-Forum 2 (engl.) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Masoud Babaei, University of Manchester |
Forum 04: Design and Modelling of BHE Systems Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Reinhard Kirsch, GeoImpuls |
Science Bar Tour Location: Future Aviation Lab Chair: Mathias Nehler, Fraunhofer IEG Chair: Bastian Welsch, Hochschule Bochum |
| 3:40pm - 4:10pm |
Coffee Break Location: Foyer |
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| 4:10pm - 5:50pm |
Forum 05: Regionale Aspekte der Tiefen Geothermie Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Simona Regenspurg, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung |
Forum 06: Reservoir Charakterisation Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Harald Milsch, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung |
Spotlight on the Partner Country: UK-Forum 3 (engl.) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Tim Lines, Geothermal Wells UK Ltd |
Forum 07: Genehmigungspraxis und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Florian Stanko, Bundesverband Geothermie |
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| 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
Admission Conference Dinner |
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| 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
Conference Dinner and Award Ceremony |
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| Date: Thursday, 20/Nov/2025 | ||||
| 8:00am | Poster-Exhibition Location: Future Aviation Lab > Ground Floor & XL6 + Henry Ford > 6th Floor |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration and Welcome Coffee Location: Foyer |
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| 9:00am - 10:40am |
Forum 08: Tiefbohrtechnik (DE) Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Tobias Backers, Ruhr-Universtät Bochum |
Forum 09: Exploitation, Scaling, Corrosion and Modelling (engl.) Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Thomas Gruner, SLB Cambridge Research |
Forum 10: Regionale Konzepte und Fallbeispiele der Tiefen Geothermie Location: Open Lounge Chair: Christopher Schifflechner, Technical University of Munich |
Forum 11: Acceptance and Environment Protection in Near Surface Geothermics Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Sarah Borufka, BVG |
| 10:40am - 11:10am |
Coffee Break Location: Foyer |
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| 11:10am - 12:50pm |
Forum 12: Monitoring and induced seismicity Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Florian Stanko, Bundesverband Geothermie |
Forum 13: Drilling Technology, Borehole Management and Closed Systems (engl.) Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Thomas Kohl, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) |
Forum 14: Petrothermale Systeme (EGS) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Ingrid Stober, University of Freiburg |
Forum 15: Economy and Project Management Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Roland Koenigsdorff, Hochschule Biberach - University of Applied Sciences |
| 12:50pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Foyer |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Treffen des FA Wissenschaft & Bildung (nur Mitglieder) Location: Bessie Coleman Chair: Horst Rüter, HarbourDom GmbH |
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| 2:00pm - 3:40pm |
Forum 16: Special Approaches in Deep Geothermics Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Rüdiger Schulz, BVG |
Forum 17: Monitoring and Seismology (engl.) Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Horst Rüter, HarbourDom GmbH |
Forum 18: Miscellaneous Topics (engl.) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Thomas Gruner, SLB Cambridge Research |
Forum 19: Aquiferspeicher (ATES) Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Ingo Schäfer, Geologischer Dienst NRW |
| 3:40pm - 4:10pm |
Coffee Break Location: Foyer |
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| 4:10pm - 5:50pm |
Forum 20: Übertägige Anlagen und Wärmepumpen Location: HOLM_maX 1 Chair: Roland Koenigsdorff, Hochschule Biberach - University of Applied Sciences |
Forum 21: Reservoir Evaluation (engl.) Location: HOLM_maX 2 Chair: Inga Moeck, Uni Göttingen / LIAG |
Forum 22: Energy Storage and Disctrict Heating (engl.) Location: Open Lounge Chair: Reinhard Kirsch, GeoImpuls |
Forum 23: Untergrundspeicher (UTES) Location: Gottlieb Daimler Chair: Bastian Welsch, Hochschule Bochum |
| Date: Friday, 21/Nov/2025 | |
| 7:30am - 12:15pm |
Excursion 2: Tour of the EnBW geothermal power plant in Bruchsal Start & Ende: House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) Costs: 30 € Participants: max. 35 |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
Excursion 3: Exkursion zum Rebstockbad und dem Projekt SEED Location: im "Franky´s - das Wirtshaus" (Pariser Straße 11, 60486 Frankfurt am Main) Chair: Clemens Lehr, Geotechnik Lehr Start: am "Franky´s - das Wirtshaus" (Pariser Straße 11, 60486 Frankfurt am Main) End: Zum Rebstockbad 7, 60486 Frankfurt am Main |